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circuitus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɪrˈkuː.ɪ.tʊs], [kɪrˈku.ɪ.tʊs]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [t͡ʃirˈkuː.i.tus]
  • Note: The second syllable may be long due to compensatory lengthening from losing the nasal of circum, yet it may also be shortened due to the Latin rule of having only the last vowel in a row be allowed to be long.

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of circueō.

Participle

circuitus (feminine circuita, neuter circuitum); first/second-declension participle

  1. circulated
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

More information singular, plural ...

References

  • circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • circuitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

From circueō, alternative form of circumeō (go around) + -tus (action noun suffix).

Noun

circuitus m (genitive circuitūs); fourth declension

  1. patrol
  2. circuit
  3. revolution (going around)
  4. cycle, period
  5. circumlocution
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants
  • Inherited:
    • Old Italian: circovito, cercovito (surrounding wall) (possibly a phonetically-adapted borrowing)
  • Borrowed:

References

  • circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • circuitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "circuitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • circuitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • the period: ambitus, circuitus, comprehensio, continuatio (verborum, orationis), also simply periodus
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